Another good video of Baja
https://youtu.be/3KuHYgYQKc4?si=x4JW6aAikkeXCuTt

Whale tales.  Guerrero Negro is a good place to go whale watching.

Bahia De Los Angles.






Whales like to have a good look around.  Only Gray whales stick their heads up to have a look around.

Ever touched an 80 foot whale?




Are there more Osprey than people in Baja California Sur?


36516

Cedar Creek beach.  It takes a lot of effort to walk there.  From my tent I watched eagles play on the beach early in the morning.

One of the best Baja videos I've seen.  Stayed awake late to watch it.
https://youtu.be/KTASiq3ys4o

https://vivabaja.com/explore/baja-photos-map/
Interactive photo map of Baja

Baja season starts the first day of November

Ensenada at the Baja 1,000  every November.

They also have a grand carnival party in Ensenada.
 
The Baja 1,000 is the season finale of off road racing.
At just 38 km off route, why not take a look.




Ensenada is a good place to learn a little history.

Back on the divide, listening to coyotes sing their song.

Not so far from the east end.

Yep you need bear spray, and 25 feet of rope to hang your food.


The west end looks like this,

Bear cans required at the beach.

evdog,
I curious if you need a bear can or a rope to hang your food up there?    Surely you had some bear spray?  I'm headed for for Glacier NP soon.  I might find myself those trails for a week or so next month.  If you know something about grizzlies in the area or regulations for bear cans and bear spry  could you post it up?

FWIW, all entrances to Yellowstone are closed:

https://ksltv.com/495928/all-yellowstone-np-entrances-closed-due-to-severe-flooding-rockslides/

Last year in Yellowstone:





The rangers bent the road closures for me, a solo cyclist, a couple of times.  Friday evening the forecast was for a low of 32 on Sunday night, Saturday morning the forecast was for 24* Fahrenheit Sunday night.  I wanted to get to a lower elevation.   It got down to 14.  Thanks rangers.  I enjoyed having the road all to myself. 

Weathers not a joke in Yellowstone.

r

Shimano Saint flats work for me.

 New maps for Baja.  They claim the Baja Divide is on the map now.  pre order is $20
https://www.bajabound.com/baja-atlas.php

If you can, read The Cave Paintings of Baja California

by Harry W. Crosby

Baja Divide cerado para covid 19,
not.

The migration guy noticed that I had cleaned nearly all the dust off my bike, and just waved me through.





Worst day of the year to ride a bike is race day. Nov 17 - 22
http://score-international.com/raceinfo/baja-1000-2/

social distancing?

the right way

Universal parts might keep us going.  A few months back I met a guy in Catavina Baja.  The guy was on a nice + bike with top end parts.  When I saw him again in Guerrero Negro  His left crank arm was busted off his bike.  Most everybody wanted to help him.  Just one problem He had an Isis bottom bracket.  He had to go back to San Diego to buy a tool to get the Isis bb off. 12 hours and 12 hours back on a buss, 1,200 pesos each way. He had an expensive German bracket rated for 100,000 kilometres.  I guess he rode that far before it broke.  Most every bike shack from north to south has a Shimano bb tool.  Seems that oh so few bike shops have a Isis tool.  

The point is, even the best parts can fail in time.  Should we set our selves up with universal parts that use a common tool?  Phil Wood Stainless external 68/73mm BB, uses a common tool that most bike shacks have.  I saw a frame that checked all the boxes I was looking for.  Except.  It had a press fit bb.  so I did not buy it.  hmm

http://bighorntrailrace.blogspot.com/
Just want to remind myself to read this page.
and find the new route

A little 3m reflective tape works quite well.
Be seen, let the cars know you are there.

Oldest rider = 70.  Think he said his name was Lee, from White Horse, Yukon.
6/10 ride a Surly on the Baja DIvide.
7/10 ride on 29+ 3.0 tires.  My 29 x 2.6 seem to be the thinnest out there.
8/10 have a Brooks saddle.  I don?t know why.
1/10 have drop bars.  I did not like them, until I rode a few hundred miles north and into the wind on Mex 1.  

In the old days I would never see another rider on the back roads.  But would see groups riding down Mex 1 every day or two.
This year I saw 1 rider with panniers on Mex 1 and 10 or more riding the gravel roads.

Is there a right asswer?

I figure in the 10 years since they posted this, someone has discovered something new_?

New decade means new ideas?  About water?

I have not yet found the one and only way to make my water safe to drink.  If there is a way to do so.  Most of the time I find something wrong with my new filter or gadget-  

I might start just boiling water.